diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 19d9227..6fce9d1 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,33 +4,149 @@ All notable changes to this crate are documented here. The format is
 based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/), and
 this crate adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/).
 
-## [Unreleased]
+## [0.1.0] - 2026-10-30
+
+The founding entry — the crate's first release. `alkssh` is the alk
+family's SSH adapter (family ADR-003): a thin wrapper around russh
+0.65 terminating the vanilla-ssh wire and bridging to/from alkcall
+channels — the two-direction door for vanilla clients. The wire is
+russh's; the crate's substance is the channel-type mappings
+(session/pty → alktty, direct/forwarded-tcpip → alktunnels, git exec →
+alkgit), each behind its cargo feature in a flat, independent graph
+(ADR-003): **a default build has no capabilities and serves nothing
+but clean declines** — every unfeatured or unimplemented request is
+declined fail-closed, never half-served or silently fallen back, and
+never advertised. Identity is the family's: a verified key's
+fingerprint → alkcall `IdentityProvider`; keys the crate holds come
+from alkvault-backed sources, encrypted at rest, decrypted at use,
+never env vars (ADR-005). The crate is a door, not a backend — no
+binary, no deployment policy; a downstream app embeds it, enables
+features, and brings identity/ACL configuration.
 
 ### Added
 
-- Initialized: docs-only phase 0 base — SDD process (`docs/sdd_process.md`),
-  opencode agent definitions, rust crate manifest (lib only, no
-  dependencies yet), MIT OR Apache-2.0 licensing. The russh pin, the
-  capability feature graph, and the channel-type mapping table are
-  phase 0 research output (family ADR-003, OQ-08 remaining scope).
-- Phase 0 research set under `docs/research/`: `vision.md` (scope
-  questions), `russh.md` (0.64.1-era inventory + pin considerations),
-  `auth-bridge.md` (fingerprint → identity server path; vault-backed
-  at-rest client key storage — the vault as secret store, not key
-  derivation), `mapping-table.md` (channel type/request → family seam
-  + feature), `pocs.md` (POC-1..3 plan).
-- Phase 0 completed — all three POCs passed against the current
-  published russh with vanilla tooling (121 checks total); findings
-  in `poc-1-auth-bridge.md` (31), `poc-2-vault-keys.md` (39),
-  `poc-3-mapping-bakeoff.md` (51, three mapping-table corrections
-  recorded), plus the reverse-runner client-direction extraction
-  (`reverse-runner.md`). POC source is disposable, never merged.
-- Phase 1 architecture under `docs/architecture/`: the index +
-  open-questions tracker (OQ-01…13), the spec docs
-  (`overview.md`, `mapping.md`, `client.md`, `auth.md`), and ADRs
-  001–006 (Accepted) — the `alk/ssh` ALPN pin; the russh 0.65.0 pin
-  (aws-lc-rs, no compression, `rsa` off); the capability feature
-  graph (flat, two-direction, `dynamic-forward` retired); auth
-  dispositions; vault-key custody; and the mapping/dispatch
-  decisions (route-1 bridge, exec-only git, parse-only session
-  dispatch).
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+**Phase 0/1 — research and architecture** (the contract the
+implementation lands):
+
+- SDD process, phase 0 research set (`docs/research/`), and the three
+  passed POCs (auth bridge, vault keys, mapping bake-off; findings in
+  `poc-1..3` + `reverse-runner.md`; POC source never merged).
+- Phase 1 architecture under `docs/architecture/`: the spec docs and
+  ADRs 001–006 (Accepted) — the `alk/ssh` ALPN pin; the russh 0.65.0
+  pin (aws-lc-rs, no compression, rsa off); the capability feature
+  graph; auth dispositions; vault-key custody; the mapping/bridge/
+  dispatch decisions.
+
+**Wave 1 — foundations:**
+
+- The manifest: the russh 0.65 pin (`aws-lc-rs`, default features
+  off), the flat feature graph (`session` / `git` / `tunnel` /
+  `sftp`, `default = []`).
+- The fail-closed error taxonomy (`thiserror`): `AdapterError`,
+  `DialError`, `KeySourceError`, `OpError`, `OpenDeclineReason` —
+  declines are dispositions, never panics; no `unwrap` outside tests.
+- Vault-backed key custody in code: the `KeySource` /
+  `HostKeySource` seams and the ADR-005 implementations
+  (`VaultKeySource`, `VaultHostKeySource`) — decrypt-at-use /
+  decrypt-at-construction, the `Zeroizing` seam, one
+  `decode_secret_key` conversion.
+- The `HostKeyPolicy` seam (OQ-05, policy-blind) with the fail-closed
+  default `RejectAll` — no accept-all built-in exists in the crate.
+- The contract-invariant fingerprint computation (the crate's single
+  fingerprint path, the `SHA256:` format both the auth bridge and the
+  host-key policy consume).
+- The config surface: `ServeConfig`, `DialConfig`, `Limits` (the
+  bounded-resources budget model — wall clock always set, channel
+  caps, keepalive posture) — unset fields decline at request time
+  (OQ-08), construction never validates.
+
+**Wave 2 — the server stack:**
+
+- `SshAdapter` — the mount point: `SshAdapter::new(serve)` builds the
+  russh server from the config (fail-closed on key-source failure);
+  `adapter.handle(stream)` serves one connection.
+- The auth bridge: russh auth hooks → ADR-004 dispositions —
+  verified-key fingerprint → `IdentityProvider::resolve_from_fingerprint`,
+  fail-closed on every path; bounded auth attempts.
+- Parse-only dispatch + the fail-closed decline core: every unroutable
+  or unfeatured request answers a clean, channel-scoped decline; the
+  spawned serving-path shapes (`channel_failure` then close).
+- Spawn-and-return plumbing (ADR-006 decision 4): serving paths run
+  spawned (russh handlers return fast at this pin), with the
+  exit-status-before-close mechanics.
+- Bounded resources at the handler surface: per-connection channel
+  caps (refuse-never-queue) and listener caps.
+- The in-process loopback harness (the contract-test vehicle).
+
+**Wave 3 — the server mappings (the spine):**
+
+- Per-feature seam handles (`SessionSeam`, `GitSeam`,
+  `TunnelListenSeam`): unset seam → decline even with the feature on.
+- Decline-path tracing (`tracing` events on every decline class).
+- The git mapping (exec-only, ADR-006): the full exec grammar —
+  `git-{upload,receive}-pack '/<repo>'` parsed and dispatched to
+  alkgit; a subsystem request can never carry the repository and
+  declines; `1` is honestly reported for push `ng`.
+- The session mapping: pty/shell/exec through the alktty seam over a
+  translation bridge (chunk-framed both directions), OQ-44's reserved
+  ttymodes JSON, the exit-chunk → SSH exit derivation (rules 1–6),
+  control rows (window-change, signal) on a bounded per-channel
+  surface.
+- Tunnel leg 1: the route-1 bridge — `direct-tcpip` /
+  `direct-streamlocal` opens ride the assembly's `TunnelSession` over
+  the family fabric; fabric failure is a clean `ConnectFailed` reject.
+- Tunnel leg 2: the `-R` listen flow — `tcpip_forward` /
+  `streamlocal_forward` dial the fabric, arrivals correlate through
+  the token router (miss → teardown-at-birth), the data leg opens
+  `forwarded-tcpip`/`forwarded-streamlocal` back toward the client,
+  port-0 mints echo the actually-bound port.
+
+**Wave 4 — the client direction:**
+
+- The dial surface: `dial(DialConfig)` — key load (decrypt-at-dial),
+  bounded russh client config, the host-key policy call, exactly one
+  publickey attempt; `SshConnection` the handle.
+- The op rows: `exec` / `pty_exec` / `shell` (the alktty chunk plane),
+  `tunnel_direct` / `tunnel_direct_unix` (byte duplex),
+  `git_service` (pack duplex + consumed exit) — plus the `sftp`
+  decline row (always declines, every build).
+- The `-R` leg: `reverse_listen` / `reverse_listen_unix` + the
+  `AcceptorRegistry` (refuse-never-replace) and the acceptor traits —
+  the hub asks the vanilla server to listen and serves the accepted
+  channels.
+- Lifecycle primitives (OQ-12): explicitly cancellable listener
+  handles, clean `close()` (`Disconnect::ByApplication`) — drop is
+  never the clean path at this pin; no reconnect/restore policy (the
+  crate ships primitives, the assembly composes).
+- Hardening riders: the git row's status-before-close by construction,
+  the channel-not-held guard wire rows, tty control-row coverage, the
+  `ListenRouter` token-collision pre-check.
+
+**Wave 5 — validation and release:**
+
+- The decline-matrix contract suite: every mapping-decline row × every
+  build it can appear in × both directions (the matrix runner
+  `scripts/matrix.sh` — one command over all feature builds).
+- Real-tool e2e both directions: OpenSSH (pty/shell/exec, `-L`, `-R`,
+  `-D` + curl), git clone and push through the door, and a real
+  `sshd` against the client direction (exec, direct-tcpip dial, `-R`
+  listen + acceptor) — check-gated, skipped rows carry reasons.
+- The `fuzz/` sidecar: the ingress surfaces (exec parse grammar,
+  fingerprint format, key decode, `TerminalParamsWire`) with the
+  committed-seed corpus gate (`cargo test --manifest-path
+  fuzz/shared/Cargo.toml`).
+- Release readiness: warning-free crate docs with the known-limits
+  records riding the published rustdoc, this README, and the publish
+  dry-run posture.
+
+### Notes
+
+- `sftp` is a feature of decline: enabling it adds no capability —
+  the `sftp` subsystem request still declines in every build until
+  the alkfs mapping lands (OQ-13; the decline stays contract
+  territory).
+- The `env` request declines unconditionally (OQ-09): session cwd/env
+  are assembly-supplied, never wire-derived.
+- The russh pin (0.65, `aws-lc-rs`, `des`/`dsa` never enabled) is a
+  wire-relevant one-way door: bumps are deliberate, tested, and
+  recorded (ADR-002).
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..284d5c3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,158 @@
+# alkssh
+
+SSH adapter for the alk family: a thin wrapper around
+[russh](https://docs.rs/russh) terminating the vanilla-ssh wire and
+bridging to/from alkcall channels — the SSH counterpart of the
+alkhttp adapter (`family` ADR-003). Vanilla clients terminate vanilla
+ssh; family protocol halves (alktty, alktunnels, alkgit) receive their
+own chunk planes; the door itself speaks no family protocol and owns
+no deployment policy.
+
+The crate is a **door, not a backend**: no binary, no front doors — a
+downstream app (alkforge) embeds it, enables the features it wants,
+and brings identity/ACL configuration and the family fabric handles.
+It is two-directional: a server mount serves vanilla ssh into the
+family, and a dial points family ops at a vanilla `sshd`.
+
+## The feature graph — fail-closed
+
+`default = []` by design: **a default build has no capabilities and
+can serve nothing but clean declines.** Every channel-type mapping is
+a cargo feature; each feature is flat and independent (no feature
+implies another):
+
+| Feature | Maps | Family protocol |
+|---|---|---|
+| `session` | pty / shell / exec (pipe) rows → chunk-framed session | alktty |
+| `git` | the exec-only git rows (`git-{upload,receive}-pack`) | alkgit |
+| `tunnel` | `direct-tcpip` / `direct-streamlocal`, the `-R` legs | alktunnels |
+| `sftp` | reserved decline placeholder (OQ-13) — always declines until the alkfs mapping lands | — |
+
+Non-mapped surface (x11, `auth-agent`, the `env` request, git *subsystem*
+requests, `sftp` until alkfs) declines fail-closed in every build:
+never a half-capability, never a silent fallback, and never advertised
+— an unfeatured channel type is declined, not advertised. A request
+whose config fields are unset declines too (an unset seam or shell
+argv configures nothing — the feature alone is not a capability).
+
+## Usage
+
+The assembly injects the seams: an alkcall
+`IdentityProvider` (verified fingerprint → identity), key sources, and
+the per-feature family handles. The examples below are the crate's
+compile-checked doctests (see the crate docs in `src/lib.rs`).
+
+A server mount — per accepted TCP connection, run the door:
+
+```rust,no_run
+use std::sync::Arc;
+
+use async_trait::async_trait;
+
+struct Identity;
+
+impl alkcall::core::auth::IdentityProvider for Identity {
+    fn resolve_from_fingerprint(&self, _: &str) -> Option<alkcall::core::auth::Identity> {
+        None // the assembly's registry decides
+    }
+
+    fn resolve_from_token(&self, _: &alkcall::core::auth::AuthToken) -> Option<alkcall::core::auth::Identity> {
+        None
+    }
+}
+
+struct HostKeys;
+
+#[async_trait]
+impl alkssh::HostKeySource for HostKeys {
+    async fn load(&self) -> Result<Vec<russh::keys::PrivateKey>, alkssh::KeySourceError> {
+        Err(alkssh::KeySourceError::Absent) // sketch; vault-backed in prod
+    }
+}
+
+let serve = alkssh::ServeConfig::new(Arc::new(Identity), Arc::new(HostKeys));
+let adapter = alkssh::SshAdapter::new(serve).await?;
+
+// per accepted TCP connection from the assembly's listener:
+// adapter.handle(stream).await?;
+```
+
+A dial — family ops pointed upstream at a vanilla server:
+
+```rust,no_run
+use std::sync::Arc;
+
+use async_trait::async_trait;
+
+struct DialKey;
+
+#[async_trait]
+impl alkssh::KeySource for DialKey {
+    async fn load(&self) -> Result<russh::keys::PrivateKey, alkssh::KeySourceError> {
+        Err(alkssh::KeySourceError::Absent) // sketch; vault-backed in prod
+    }
+}
+
+let conn = alkssh::dial(alkssh::DialConfig::new(
+    "hub.example:22",
+    "runner",
+    Arc::new(DialKey),
+    Arc::new(alkssh::RejectAll),
+))
+.await?;
+
+// op rows (under their features): conn.exec, conn.tunnel_direct,
+// conn.git_service, conn.reverse_listen — see the crate docs.
+conn.close().await; // clean disconnect — drop is never the clean path
+```
+
+Minimal builds compile and doctest with no features enabled —
+
+```console
+$ cargo build
+$ cargo test
+```
+
+— and every capability row additionally rides its feature build (the
+matrix: no features / `git` / `session` / `tunnel` / `sftp` /
+`--all-features`).
+
+## Key custody and security posture
+
+- **Keys are sources, never static material** (alknet-main's `main`
+  key model, ADR-005): the dial/host key seams are
+  decrypt-at-use handles over an injected
+  [`alkvault`](https://docs.rs/alkvault) service — keys held
+  encrypted at rest, decrypted at use, zeroized through the seam.
+  The vault is a secret store on this path, not a key generator.
+- **No env vars, no config-file key material, no secrets on the
+  wire.** The standing family posture (family ADR-002 decision 5).
+- **Publickey-only authentication**, exactly one attempt — no
+  password, keyboard-interactive, cert, or fallback methods exist on
+  the surface.
+- **Host-key trust is assembly policy**: the crate ships a
+  `HostKeyPolicy` seam with a fail-closed default (`RejectAll` — a
+  dial with it connects to nothing) and **no accept-all built-in**;
+  any permissive policy is the assembly's to write.
+- **Injected identity**: every wire-exposed op is checked against
+  alkcall's `AccessControl::check(peer_identity)`; internal ops are
+  never wire-callable; there is no unauthenticated capability.
+- **Bounded resources everywhere** (`Limits` — wall clock always
+  set, channel caps, listener caps, window/packet budgets, auth
+  attempt limit): the crate never constructs an unbounded session.
+  Known, recorded limits ride the published docs (the crate-root
+  rustdoc §Known limits).
+- **Every disabled feature declines**: the decline matrix is contract
+  territory tested in every build.
+
+## Documentation
+
+- Crate docs: `cargo doc --open` (the crate-root docs carry the
+  feature graph and the known-limits records).
+- `docs/architecture/` — the authoritative contract: the spec
+  (`overview.md`, `mapping.md`, `client.md`, `auth.md`), ADRs
+  001–006, and the open-questions tracker.
+
+## License
+
+MIT OR Apache-2.0 — see `LICENSE-MIT` / `LICENSE-APACHE`.
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diff --git a/src/client_accept.rs b/src/client_accept.rs
index 0bdd9af..563a393 100644
--- a/src/client_accept.rs
+++ b/src/client_accept.rs
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 //!   `ForwardedAcceptor` vocabulary is grown, not forked: the payload
 //!   fields are the same shapes (the open's originator fields + the
 //!   channel duplex), the duplex now family-typed
-//!   ([`TunnelChannel`](crate::TunnelChannel) — the `-L` rows' byte
+//!   ([`TunnelChannel`] — the `-L` rows' byte
 //!   duplex, one type both legs ride).
 //! - **Install is refuse-never-replace** ([`AcceptorRegistry::
 //!   install_tcpip`]'s held-slot error): the same posture recorded
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@
 //! ## The data leg
 //!
 //! Per accepted open: the hook accepts the channel and hands the
-//! assembly the open — the [`TunnelChannel`](crate::TunnelChannel)
+//! assembly the open — the [`TunnelChannel`]
 //! duplex + the open's echo/originator fields (the payload types
 //! below) — on a spawned task (the spawn-and-return rule's client
 //! mirror: the hook runs in the packet loop and returns fast). The
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ impl std::fmt::Debug for ForwardedStreamlocal {
 /// packet loop): the assembly's pump/home of the open lives inside
 /// it; the crate releases its handoff counter when the handoff task
 /// ends — the call returning *or the task unwinding*
-/// ([`HandoffCapGuard`]) — so the family shape (hand off to a queue,
+/// (`HandoffCapGuard`) — so the family shape (hand off to a queue,
 /// return) keeps the counter's meaning "open accepted, handoff in
 /// flight".
 #[async_trait]
diff --git a/src/client_handler.rs b/src/client_handler.rs
index cd29252..f6fc959 100644
--- a/src/client_handler.rs
+++ b/src/client_handler.rs
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 //!    through the **acceptor registry** ([`crate::client_accept`] —
 //!    the `w4-reverse-listen` surface): served only under a registered
 //!    acceptor for that type and under the `tunnel` feature (the
-//!    [`with_tunnel_surface`](ClientHandler::with_tunnel_surface)
+//!    [`with_tunnel_surface`]'s tunnel surface
 //!    wiring; a build without `tunnel` has no registry — every hook
 //!    declines); unregistered/unfeatured opens answer
 //!    [`ChannelOpenFailure::AdministrativelyProhibited`] — a clean
diff --git a/src/client_ops.rs b/src/client_ops.rs
index 5825900..31ec29a 100644
--- a/src/client_ops.rs
+++ b/src/client_ops.rs
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ impl SshConnection {
 /// A remote **session** — the family session plane over the runner
 /// (the session rows' surface): the alktty chunk framing in both
 /// directions, exactly the plane the server direction's session
-/// bridge speaks ([`crate::tty_map`]), reversed. Two duplex halves
+/// bridge speaks (`tty_map`), reversed. Two duplex halves
 /// the hub drives; the pumps are spawned at the op's launch (§the
 /// family plane in the module docs for the full chunk map). Dropping
 /// the session (both halves) is wire-clean: the input pump's
@@ -269,7 +269,8 @@ impl SshConnection {
     }
 
     /// The pty-mode exec row (`ssh -t host "cmd"`): the pty request
-    /// carries the family [`TerminalParamsWire`](alktty::negotiation::
+    /// carries the family
+    /// [`alktty::negotiation::TerminalParamsWire`](alktty::negotiation::
     /// TerminalParamsWire) first (its acceptance drained), then the
     /// exec. **A refused pty refuses the whole row** — never a
     /// half-capability, never a silent pty-less fall.
@@ -683,17 +684,17 @@ impl std::fmt::Debug for GitPackSession {
 impl SshConnection {
     /// The upstream git row: the shared exec grammar's command
     /// (`git-{upload,receive}-pack '/<repo>'` — built through
-    /// [`crate::dispatch`]'s construction arm, the parse arm's exact
+    /// `crate::dispatch`'s construction arm, the parse arm's exact
     /// inverse; no forked grammar), pointed at the vanilla `sshd`:
     /// typed open + `exec`, the pack duplex pumped, the exit report
     /// consumed.
     ///
     /// **The pre-wire gates, riding the shared grammar's verdicts:**
     /// the repo id validates against the ADR-008 grammar (the git
-    /// row's server-direction gate mirrored,
-    /// [`crate::git_map`]) → [`OpError::InvalidRepoId`](crate::OpError);
+    /// row's server-direction gate mirrored, `crate::git_map`) →
+    /// [`OpError::InvalidRepoId`](crate::OpError);
     /// the constructed command is checked against the exec-length
-    /// budget ([`Limits::max_exec_command_len`]) →
+    /// budget ([`crate::Limits::max_exec_command_len`]) →
     /// [`OpError::CommandTooLong`](crate::OpError) — both **before any
     /// wire op**. (The grammar's other decline classes —
     /// `unknown-service` / `service-only` — are structurally
diff --git a/src/error.rs b/src/error.rs
index 103dbc0..5877b00 100644
--- a/src/error.rs
+++ b/src/error.rs
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ pub enum KeySourceError {
     /// ADR-005 semantics: the vault decrypted *something*
     /// successfully and the plaintext is not an OpenSSH
     /// private-key PEM (decision 1's inner format). Distinct from
-    /// [`Decryption`](KeySourceError::Decryption) on purpose — the
+    /// [`KeySourceError::Decryption`] on purpose — the
     /// custody boundary held, what was guarded is not a key. The
     /// underlying parse error's message is deliberately *not*
     /// carried — the machinery's text can echo plaintext-shaped
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 9852615..400ca56 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -24,6 +24,170 @@
 //! lifecycle primitives — are landed through wave 4; the validation
 //! suite and the release are wave 5). See also `docs/research/`,
 //! `docs/plans/implementation.md`, and family ADR-003.
+//!
+//! # The feature graph (ADR-003 — flat, independent, fail-closed)
+//!
+//! Every channel-type mapping is a cargo feature; a session opening an
+//! unfeatured or unimplemented channel type is declined fail-closed —
+//! never a half-capability, never a silent fallback. **A default build
+//! (no features) has no capabilities**: it can serve nothing but clean
+//! declines. No feature implies another; the graph is flat.
+//!
+//! - (default, no features) — serves declines only: every open, exec,
+//!   listen request answers a clean, channel-scoped refusal.
+//! - `session` — pty/shell/exec rows → the `RemoteSession` chunk
+//!   plane (alktty).
+//! - `git` — the exec-only git rows (`git-{upload,receive}-pack`) →
+//!   alkgit; a git *subsystem* request always declines (the repository
+//!   can never ride a subsystem channel).
+//! - `tunnel` — `direct-tcpip` / `direct-streamlocal` and the `-R`
+//!   legs (listen, `forwarded-tcpip` / `forwarded-streamlocal`) →
+//!   alktunnels.
+//! - `sftp` — a reserved, currently-empty placeholder (OQ-13): the
+//!   `sftp` subsystem request still declines in every build until the
+//!   alkfs mapping lands; the feature exists so the decline stays
+//!   contract territory (tested in every matrix build).
+//!
+//! Advertisement is honest: an unfeatured channel type is never
+//! advertised, only declined (`docs/architecture/mapping.md` §Decline
+//! matrix — the fail-closed invariant is contract territory on both
+//! sides of every feature).
+//!
+//! # Known limits (recorded dispositions riding the published docs)
+//!
+//! The records below are deliberate dispositions — documented limits
+//! with their reasons, mirrored in the module docs and the
+//! architecture spec, not defects awaiting a fix:
+//!
+//! - **The session rows' stdout `write_all` carries no deadline.**
+//!   Backpressure is bounded (the bounded bridging duplex, russh's
+//!   per-channel window, the client's own flow control) and liveness
+//!   is covered by the always-set
+//!   [`Limits::inactivity_timeout`]; a deadline here would be a
+//!   behavior change (a slow client may stall its stream — vanilla
+//!   sshd's posture included). (`tty_map.rs` module docs.)
+//! - **The PTY path's exit-signal fidelity is limited by upstream**
+//!   (exit-currency rule 5): signal-terminated PTY sessions surface as
+//!   `exit-status(1)` because the backend's reap surface loses the
+//!   signal number; the pipe path encodes negatives faithfully. An
+//!   alktty/portable-pty ask — the contract adapts automatically
+//!   when upstream conforms.
+//! - **The port-0 mint is the only bound-port echo the wire carries**
+//!   (russh/sshd parity): a `tcpip_forward` success reply carries the
+//!   allocated port only for a `port = 0` request; an explicit-port
+//!   request's bound port is by definition the requested one — the
+//!   crate surfaces it as such, never a fabricated number.
+//! - **No reconnect/restore policy.** The client direction ships
+//!   lifecycle *primitives* (bound ports, cancellable handles, clean
+//!   [`SshConnection::close`]); reconnect-and-restore (rebinding
+//!   persisted tunnel ports) is assembly composition over them — the
+//!   crate never owns the policy. Drop is never the clean path at
+//!   this russh pin: only an explicit `close` sends the clean
+//!   disconnect.
+//! - **No accept-all host-key policy exists in the crate.** The
+//!   built-in default is [`RejectAll`] (a dial with it can never
+//!   connect — by design); the crate is policy-blind and any
+//!   permissive trust policy is the assembly's to write. A
+//!   fail-closed policy posture: when a policy cannot decide, it must
+//!   decline.
+//!
+//! # Usage
+//!
+//! The crate is a door, not a deployment: an assembly embeds it,
+//! enables the features it wants, and injects the seams (identity,
+//! key sources, the per-feature family handles). The examples are
+//! compile-checked (`no_run`) doctests — honest sketches, not
+//! executable code.
+//!
+//! A server mount (the default build — a decline-only door; the
+//! assembly's real sources are the vault-backed [`VaultKeySource`] /
+//! [`VaultHostKeySource`] shapes):
+//!
+//! ```rust,no_run
+//! use std::sync::Arc;
+//!
+//! use async_trait::async_trait;
+//!
+//! struct Identity;
+//!
+//! impl alkcall::core::auth::IdentityProvider for Identity {
+//!     fn resolve_from_fingerprint(
+//!         &self,
+//!         _: &str,
+//!     ) -> Option<alkcall::core::auth::Identity> {
+//!         None // the assembly's registry decides
+//!     }
+//!
+//!     fn resolve_from_token(
+//!         &self,
+//!         _: &alkcall::core::auth::AuthToken,
+//!     ) -> Option<alkcall::core::auth::Identity> {
+//!         None
+//!     }
+//! }
+//!
+//! struct HostKeys;
+//!
+//! #[async_trait]
+//! impl alkssh::HostKeySource for HostKeys {
+//!     async fn load(
+//!         &self,
+//!     ) -> Result<Vec<russh::keys::PrivateKey>, alkssh::KeySourceError> {
+//!         Err(alkssh::KeySourceError::Absent) // sketch; vault-backed in prod
+//!     }
+//! }
+//!
+//! # fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
+//! # tokio::runtime::Runtime::new()?.block_on(async {
+//! let serve = alkssh::ServeConfig::new(Arc::new(Identity), Arc::new(HostKeys));
+//! let adapter = alkssh::SshAdapter::new(serve).await?;
+//!
+//! // per accepted TCP connection from the assembly's listener:
+//! // adapter.handle(stream).await?;
+//! # Ok::<(), alkssh::AdapterError>(())
+//! # })?;
+//! # Ok(())
+//! # }
+//! ```
+//!
+//! A dial (the client direction; the built-in [`RejectAll`]
+//! host-key policy connects to nothing — by design, the assembly's
+//! policy replaces it):
+//!
+//! ```rust,no_run
+//! use std::sync::Arc;
+//!
+//! use async_trait::async_trait;
+//!
+//! struct DialKey;
+//!
+//! #[async_trait]
+//! impl alkssh::KeySource for DialKey {
+//!     async fn load(&self) -> Result<russh::keys::PrivateKey, alkssh::KeySourceError> {
+//!         Err(alkssh::KeySourceError::Absent) // sketch; vault-backed in prod
+//!     }
+//! }
+//!
+//! # fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
+//! # tokio::runtime::Runtime::new()?.block_on(async {
+//! let conn = alkssh::dial(alkssh::DialConfig::new(
+//!     "hub.example:22",
+//!     "runner",
+//!     Arc::new(DialKey),
+//!     Arc::new(alkssh::RejectAll),
+//! ))
+//! .await?;
+//!
+//! # #[cfg(feature = "session")]
+//! # {
+//! # let _ = conn.exec("uptime"); // the op rows (feature-gated)
+//! # }
+//! conn.close().await; // clean disconnect — drop is never the clean path
+//! # Ok::<(), alkssh::DialError>(())
+//! # })?;
+//! # Ok(())
+//! # }
+//! ```
 
 mod adapter;
 mod channel_cap;
@@ -71,11 +235,11 @@ pub use client_accept::{
 #[doc(hidden)]
 pub use client_handler::ClientHandler;
 /// The client op rows' surfaces (`w4-op-rows`):
-/// [`RemoteSession`](client_ops::RemoteSession) — the exec/pty rows'
+/// [`RemoteSession`] — the exec/pty rows'
 /// family chunk plane (under `session`),
-/// [`TunnelChannel`](client_ops::TunnelChannel) — the direct
+/// [`TunnelChannel`] — the direct
 /// rows' byte duplex (under `tunnel`),
-/// [`GitPackSession`](client_ops::GitPackSession) — the upstream git
+/// [`GitPackSession`] — the upstream git
 /// row's pack duplex + consumed exit (under `git`). The op methods
 /// live on [`SshConnection`] (the op-row surface). Not a re-export
 /// here: the `sftp` row is [`SshConnection::sftp`] itself — the
diff --git a/src/tty_map.rs b/src/tty_map.rs
index 13df7db..9e68f38 100644
--- a/src/tty_map.rs
+++ b/src/tty_map.rs
@@ -152,9 +152,6 @@
 //! The report is sent **before** close, from the spawned serving
 //! task (ADR-006 decision 4, via the cloned `Session::handle()`).
 //!
-//! The report is sent **before** close, from the spawned serving
-//! task (ADR-006 decision 4, via the cloned `Session::handle()`).
-//!
 //! ## Cancellation (bounded resources + alktty's kill-on-drop)
 //!
 //! The serving task watches two signals: the **per-channel cancel**
diff --git a/tasks/implementation/w5-release-readiness.md b/tasks/implementation/w5-release-readiness.md
index 9bd4c36..9ab8a54 100644
--- a/tasks/implementation/w5-release-readiness.md
+++ b/tasks/implementation/w5-release-readiness.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ---
 id: w5-release-readiness
 name: Wave 5 — release readiness (docs, feature matrix, CHANGELOG/README, dry-run)
-status: pending
+status: completed
 depends_on: [w5-decline-matrix, w5-e2e-server, w5-e2e-client, w5-fuzz-harness]
 scope: moderate
 risk: low
@@ -52,18 +52,18 @@ bullet; the alkgit `w5-release-readiness` shape):
 
 ## Acceptance Criteria
 
-- [ ] `cargo doc --no-deps` (+ `--all-features`) warning-free or
+- [x] `cargo doc --no-deps` (+ `--all-features`) warning-free or
       every residual dispositioned; the docs-honesty pass complete
       (the known-limits records ride the published docs)
-- [ ] README.md landed (what/why, feature graph + fail-closed,
+- [x] README.md landed (what/why, feature graph + fail-closed,
       compile-checked examples, custody posture, license)
-- [ ] CHANGELOG.md's 0.1.0 entry landed
-- [ ] The feature matrix green (default / each feature /
+- [x] CHANGELOG.md's 0.1.0 entry landed
+- [x] The feature matrix green (default / each feature /
       `--all-features`: test + clippy + doc)
-- [ ] `cargo publish --dry-run --allow-dirty` clean; the packaged
+- [x] `cargo publish --dry-run --allow-dirty` clean; the packaged
       file list verified against the package policy; manifest sanity
       recorded
-- [ ] The freeze inventory recorded for the gate
+- [x] The freeze inventory recorded for the gate
 
 ## References
 
@@ -79,8 +79,153 @@ bullet; the alkgit `w5-release-readiness` shape):
 
 ## Notes
 
-> To be filled by implementation agent
+**Crate docs.** `cargo doc --no-deps` is warning-free on both the
+default build and `--all-features`. The pre-existing doc-link debt is
+resolved (not dispositioned): 9 warnings (1 duplicate) at
+`--all-features` — the `client_ops.rs` private-link class
+(`crate::tty_map` / `crate::dispatch` / `crate::git_map` — private
+modules; de-linked to backtick prose), the two
+`rustdoc::redundant_explicit_links` spans (the `(client_ops::…)`
+destinations on the `lib.rs` re-export docs and two
+`[`TunnelChannel`](crate::TunnelChannel)` + `with_tunnel_surface` /
+`KeySourceError::Decryption` same-item links in
+`client_accept.rs`/`client_handler.rs`/`error.rs`), the broken
+`TerminalParamsWire` path (now a resolution-correct target through
+its wrapped re-export form) and the unresolved `Limits::…`
+intra-doc link (now `crate::Limits::…`); plus the twin
+duplicated "report is sent before close" paragraph in `tty_map.rs`
+removed one. **Docs honesty:** the five recorded limits now ride the
+*published* docs (the crate-root rustdoc §Known limits — the
+`write_all` no-deadline record, the PTY rule-5 upstream fidelity
+limit, the port-0-only mint echo wire fact, the no-reconnect-policy
+boundary, the no-accept-all policy posture) with their module-doc
+mirrors verified still in place (`tty_map.rs`, `exit_code.rs`
+rule 5, `client_accept.rs`/`tunnel_map.rs`, `client.rs`
+§Lifecycle posture, `host_key.rs`); crate-level docs state the
+feature graph (each feature's row + the `default = []` decline-only
+fact + no-feature-implies-another + honest advertisement) and the
+fail-closed invariant.
 
+**Compile-checked examples.** Two `no_run` doctests in the
+crate-root docs (they run in every matrix build — the publish task's
+verification set keeps them compile-checked with zero extra
+vehicle): a server mount (`ServeConfig::new` → `SshAdapter::new` →
+`adapter.handle`, on the default build — sketch key/identity seams
+returning `Absent`/`None`, prose points at the vault-backed shapes)
+and a dial (`dial(DialConfig)` → `close()`, the op rows referenced in
+prose with the feature gate noted; `RejectAll` named as
+connects-to-nothing by design). README mirrors them.
+
+**README.md.** Landed (none existed): what the crate is (the
+two-direction door, russh owns the wire, door-not-backend), the
+feature matrix table + the fail-closed posture (a default build serves
+nothing but declines; unset-config declines; never advertised), the
+two usage sketches (mirroring the doctests), the custody/security
+posture summary (vault-backed sources — encrypted at rest, decrypted
+at use, zeroized; no env vars, no secrets on the wire; publickey-only
+single attempt; fail-closed host-key default with no accept-all;
+ACL-gated surface; bounded resources + the known-limits pointer; the
+decline matrix as contract), the docs pointers, the license note.
+
+**CHANGELOG.md.** The 0.1.0 entry landed (founding entry, dated
+2026-10-30): the crate story (the two-direction door, the flat
+fail-closed graph, ADR-003) + the posture statement, then the
+landed surface wave by wave — the phase 0/1 contract, waves 1–5
+(foundations, server stack, server mappings/spine, client direction,
+validation+release) — plus Notes (the sftp decline-only feature fact,
+the OQ-09 env posture, the russh-pin one-way-door record). Only
+served surface is listed; the never-features
+(x11/`auth-agent`/subsystem/`env`) are named as the declines they
+are.
+
+**Feature matrix** (`scripts/matrix.sh`, the one command): all six
+builds' `cargo test` green (none / git / session / tunnel / sftp-only
+/ `--all-features` — 108 result-ok reports across the matrix,
+including both doctests per build), clippy ×2 (`--all-targets -D
+warnings`, with and without `--all-features`) clean, `cargo fmt
+--check` clean, `cargo doc --no-deps` clean; plus the fuzz corpus
+gate (`cargo test --manifest-path fuzz/shared/Cargo.toml` — 11
+invariants green).
+
+**Publish dry-run.** `cargo publish --dry-run --allow-dirty` clean —
+packaged 76 files, verified (the packaged tree compiles), upload
+aborted by dry run as expected. The packaged file list verified
+against the package policy (`cargo package --list`): exactly `src/`
+(20 files), `tests/` (+ `common/` doubles + `vectors/`), the
+architecture docs (`docs/architecture/` — the authoritative
+contract), `README.md`, `CHANGELOG.md`, `LICENSE-MIT` /
+`LICENSE-APACHE`, the manifests (`Cargo.toml`/`.orig`,
+`Cargo.lock`, `.gitignore`, `.cargo_vcs_info.json`) and
+`scripts/matrix.sh` (the verification tooling, not process surface);
+none of the excluded surface appears (`.opencode/`, `AGENTS.md`,
+`docs/reviews|plans|research/` / `docs/sdd_process.md`, `tasks/`,
+`fuzz/` — none listed). **Manifest sanity recorded:** version 0.1.0
+(no bump — `w5-publish` verifies), `rust-version` 1.89, edition
+2024, `license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"` with both license files
+present, the pins as ADR-002 records them (russh 0.65
+`default-features = false` + `aws-lc-rs`; alkcall 0.10; alkvault
+0.1; the per-feature optional siblings alktty 0.8.1 / alkgit 0.1.0 /
+alktunnels 0.4.1), the feature graph exactly ADR-003's, the
+package-policy `exclude` list in place.
+
+**The freeze inventory (for `review-wave-5` and `w5-publish` — the
+surfaces the 0.1 publish makes one-way; further wire-relevant change
+is a new ADR + a semver event):**
+
+1. **The mapping contracts** — the channel-type → family-protocol
+   row semantics as landed (`docs/architecture/mapping.md` executed
+   by `dispatch.rs`/`tty_map.rs`/`git_map.rs`/`tunnel_map.rs`/
+   `client_ops.rs`): the route-1 bridge flow (open-direct →
+   accept-after-fabric-success), the exec-only git grammar + its
+   verdicts, the parse-only dispatch + the translation bridge
+   (chunk framing, the zero-length stdin sentinel, the
+   negotiation-error frame → 255), the exit derivation rules 1–6,
+   the client op-row planes (the family chunk/duplex surfaces, the
+   acceptor registry + payload types, the lifecycle primitives).
+2. **The honest-advertisement posture** — the fail-closed invariant
+   as behavior: an unfeatured/unimplemented channel type is declined
+   (never advertised, never half-served); a default build serves
+   declines only; the `sftp` placeholder stays a decline in every
+   build (OQ-13).
+3. **The decline-matrix behavior** — the decline classes and shapes:
+   the `OpenDeclineReason` vocabulary as exposed, the
+   spawned-`channel_failure`-then-close serving-path shape, the
+   `ConnectFailed` fabric reject, teardown-at-birth, the
+   token-collision refusal, the config-driven
+   (`seam-unconfigured`/unset-field) declines, the always-`sftp`
+   decline row — as pinned by the matrix suite.
+4. **The fingerprint string format** — the `SHA256:` contract
+   format of `crate::fingerprint()` (the crate's single fingerprint
+   path): both the auth bridge's identity resolution and the
+   host-key policy's exact-string pin comparison consume it;
+   changing the format breaks every pin store and is a one-way door.
+5. **The russh pin's wire posture** — russh 0.65.0 with
+   `aws-lc-rs` (no compression, `rsa` off, `des`/`dsa` never): the
+   kex/algorithm negotiation surface crosses the crate boundary, so
+   the pin is wire-relevant (ADR-002) — a bump is a deliberate,
+   tested, recorded event. (The `alk/ssh` ALPN pin, ADR-001, is
+   already its own ledger one-way door; the auth surface ships as
+   publickey-only, exactly one attempt.)
+   
 ## Summary
 
-> To be filled on completion
\ No newline at end of file
+Release readiness landed. Crate docs: warning-free × builds
+(default + `--all-features`), the 9-warning doc-link debt resolved in
+place (`client_ops.rs`'s private-link class among them), the
+docs-honesty pass riding the published crate-root rustdoc (§Known
+limits: the five recorded dispositions — `write_all` no-deadline, PTY
+rule-5, port-0-only mint echo, no-reconnect policy, no-accept-all —
+with module-doc mirrors verified) and crate-level docs stating the
+feature graph + fail-closed invariant; two `no_run` usage doctests
+(server mount + dial) keep the README examples compile-checked in
+every matrix build. README.md landed; CHANGELOG.md carries the 0.1.0
+founding entry (wave-by-wave, honest advertisement). The feature
+matrix is green end to end (six test builds, clippy ×2, fmt, doc) +
+the fuzz corpus gate (11 invariants). `cargo publish --dry-run
+--allow-dirty` clean (76 files packaged + verified; the file list
+checked against the package policy — architecture docs ship, the
+process surface does not; manifest sanity recorded). The freeze
+inventory (mapping contracts, honest advertisement, decline-matrix
+behavior, fingerprint format, russh pin posture) is recorded above
+for the gate's read. Ready for `review-wave-5`; `w5-publish`
+executes only over a green gate.
\ No newline at end of file